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Capital Confidence
Geopolitical Risk and Business Continuity
That 34% of our GDP is tied to China as our prime customer, brings serious gravity to the current conditions. If the national economy is one third exposed, how does this translate to some of our mining and energy producers?
The select phase of capital investment lifecycle planning
In the Select Phase, options are compared and scored against one another so that the best solution is identified and recommended for selection and implementation.
Who really bears the risk in a contract for services or works?
The long and widely held view that the Contractor bears the majority of risk in works and services is inaccurate.
The assess phase of capital investment lifecycle planning
Introduction In the last article, we looked at the difference between OPEX (operating expenditure) and CAPEX (capital expenditure.) The importance of CAPEX planning to the business was discussed and we started considering how the process is applied by considering a...
Understanding capital planning
Across industries, many people are familiar with the terms OPEX (operating expenditure) and CAPEX (capital expenditure.) Over the next six posts, we’ll look at the more complex of the two types of business costs and see how they are planned and managed. This will...
Separate the urgent from the important
“I’m so busy…” Heard that before? Seems everyone nowadays has a life so full of important-ness and busy-ness. Its not real, it’s a comfort. Trouble is, its unhealthy and very ineffective. It is prevalent, when discussing business process improvement, turn around and...
The myth of size (in the professional consulting business)
A common behaviour of buyers of business services, in certain markets, is “If we buy services from a big firm, we’ll be OK.” The logic is a larger company has undeniable credibility, superior skills and endless resources for the contract. This view, assessed from...
Why do we keep wasting money in business, but cite ‘growth’ as a distraction?
Any organisation that owns capital assets is almost certainly wasting capital value through inefficient behaviour. Challenging statement? Sure is. A spurious conjecture based on emotion. Not at all. For example, mining and energy production companies carry large...
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